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How to deal with sihr (magic/witchcraft)Praise be to Allaah.Whoever is affected by sihr should not treat it with sihr, because evilcannot be removed by evil, and kufr cannot be removed by kufr. Evilis removed by good. Hence when the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was asked about al-nushrah (treating sihr withsihr), he said:“This is the work of the Shaytaan.”Nushrah meansremoving sihr from a person who has been affected by it by usingmore sihr. But if it is treated by means of the Qur’aan andpermissible medicines or good ruqyahs, there is nothing wrong withthat, but treating it with sihr is not permitted, as previously stated,because sihr means worshipping the shayaateen (devils).The saahir (magician, practitioner of witchcraft) does sihr or learnssihr only after worshipping and serving the shayaateen, and drawingclose to them by means of the things that they like. After that, theyteach him the means of sihr. But, praise be to Allaah, there is noreason why the person who has been affected by sihr should not betreated by means of reciting Qur’aan and the prayers for refuge withAllaah that are prescribed in sharee’ah, and permissible medicines, just as patients with all kinds of sicknesses are treated by doctors.The patient does not necessarily recover, because not every sick person does recover. A sick patient might be treated and then recoverif his appointed time (of death) has not yet arrived, or he may notrecover and may die from this sickness, even though he may be beenseen by the most skilled physicians and knowledgeable doctors. Whenthe appointed time of death comes, no medicine or treatment will beof any avail, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):“And Allaah grants respite to none when his appointed time (death)comes”[al-Munaafiqoon 63:11]Medical treatment is of benefit when the appointed time has not yetcome, and Allaah decrees that His slave should be healed. The sameapplies in the case of one who has been affected by sihr; Allaah maydecree that he should recover, or He may not decree that, as a testand a trial, or for other reasons which are known to Allaah. Amongthose reasons may be the fact that the one who is treating him doesnot have the right treatment for this problem. It was narrated in asaheeh report that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah beupon him) said:“For every disease there is a medicine, and if that
 
medicine is applied to the disease, he will recover by Allaah’s Leave.”And he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:“Allaah hasnot sent down any disease but He has also sent down the cure; theone who knows it knows it and the one who does not know it does notknow it.”Among the treatments prescribed in sharee’ah is the treatment of sihr with recitation of the Qur’aan. The greatest soorah in theQur’aan, which is al-Faatihah, should be recited over the person whohas been affected by sihr. This should be repeated several times. If itis recited by a believing, righteous reader who knows that everythingis subject to the will and decree of Allaah, that Allaah is in control of all things, that when He says to a thing ‘Be!’ it is, if the reciting isbased on faith, taqwa and sincerity, and is repeated several times,then the sihr may be removed and the person may recover byAllaah’s Leave. Some of the Sahaabah (may Allaah be pleased withthem) passed by some Bedouins whose shaykh, i.e., their leader, hadbeen bitten. They had done everything they could but he had notgotten better. They said to one of the Sahaabah, “Is there any raaqi(one who performs ruqyah) among you?” They said, “Yes.” So one of them recited Soorat al-Faatihah over him, and he immediately got upfull of energy as if nothing had happened; Allaah healed him of theill-effects of that snakebite.The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:“There is nothing wrong with ruqyah so long as it does not involveshirk.”He (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) performedruqyah and had it performed for him. There is a lot of good inruqyah, and a great deal of benefit. Al-Faatihah, Aayat al-Kursiy,“Qul Huwa Allaahu Ahad”, al-Mi’wadhatayn and other aayahs maybe recited over the person who has been affected by sihr, as well asgood du’aa’s narrated in the ahaadeeth from the Prophet (peace andblessings of Allaah be upon him), such as the du’aa’ he said when heperformed ruqyah for a sick person and said,“Allaahumma Rabb al-naas, adhhib il-ba’s, washfi anta al-Shaafi laa shifaa’a illa shifaa’ukashifaa’an laa yughaadir saqaman (O Allaah, Lord of mankind,remove the harm and heal him, for You are the Healer and there is nohealing except Your healing, with a healing which does not leave anydisease behind).”This may be repeated three times or more. And itwas also narrated from him (peace and blessings of Allaah be uponhim) that Jibreel (peace be upon him) performed ruqyah for him andsaid three times:“Bismillaah arqeeka min kulli shay’in yu’dheeka,wa min sharri kulli nafsin aw ‘aynin haasid Allaah yashfeek,
 
bismillaah arqeek (In the name of Allaah I perform ruqyah for you,from every thing that is harming you, from the evil of every soul orenvious eye may Allaah heal you, in the name of Allaah I performruqyah for you).”This is a great ruqyah which was narrated in asaheeh hadeeth from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah beupon him).It is prescribed to perform ruqyah for the one who has been bitten orstung, and the one who has been affected by sihr, and the one who issick. There is nothing wrong with performing ruqyah for one who issick or has been affected by sihr or bitten or stung, by reciting gooddu’aa’s, even if they were not transmitted from the Prophet (peaceand blessings of Allaah be upon him), so long as they do not containanything that is haraam, because of the general meaning of thehadeeth of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him):“There is nothing wrong with ruqyah so long as it does not involveshirk.” Allaah may heal the sick person and the person affected by sihr, andothers, without any ruqyah and without any action on the part of other people, because He is Able to do all things, and He is Wise in allthat He does. Allaah says in His Holy Book:“Verily, His Command, when He intends a thing, is only that He saysto it, ‘Be!’ and it is!”[Yaa-Seen 36:82]To Him be praise and thanks for all that He wills and decrees, for Heis wise in all that He does.The sick person may not be healed if his appointed time has comeand it is decreed that he should die from this disease. Among thethings that may be used in ruqyah are the verses which speak of sihr,which may be recited into water. These are the verses about sihr inSoorat al-A’raaf, where Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):“And We revealed to Moosa (saying): ‘Throw your stick,’ andbehold! It swallowed up straight away all the falsehood which theyshowed.Thus truth was confirmed, and all that they did was made of noeffect.So they were defeated there and returned disgraced
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